Samsung is on track to produce 10nm chipsets faster than anyone else, it seems, including its direct TSMC foundry competition, or the juggernaut Intel. The company announced the development of a 10nm 128 Mb processor cache S-RAM memory, indicating that the rumored 10nm mobile SoC from Samsung shouldn't be far behind. The advantages of the new production process are numerous - compared to the current 14nm process, the cell footprint is reduced with close to 40%, paving the way for even smaller chips with the same performance, and a lower power draw.

Since Intel postponed its 10nm nodes for 2017, Samsung has seemingly already won the race with TSMC to out the first 10nm FinFET production lines next year, and have a retail device on 10nm chipsets by early 2017, just in time for an eventual Galaxy S8. In the meantime, the Galaxy S7 will likely run on a next-gen 14nm process that further improves power draw and performance, compared to the early generation that is in the Galaxy S6 or the iPhone 6s.

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posted on Nov 18, 2015, 6:29 AM 11

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You make it sound like they've always been the platform standard and not just recently. They have done very well, as they should considering they have resources out the butt for R&D. They're also almost fully vertically integrated, not many companies have all that going for them.

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posted on Nov 18, 2015, 6:37 AM 2

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This will probably go to ARM server chips or maybe it'll trickle down to GloFo for computing customers. This must be a risk sample. Also, it's unlikely they've 'beaten' Intel when Intel may use both 10nm FEOL and BEOL while Samsung might use 14nm BEOL to save time. Cache size is MONSTROUS tho.

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posted on Nov 18, 2015, 10:30 AM 8

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Maybe it's because you're esl, but there's a difference between someone commenting on the story in the first place, and someone telling another person not to make that orginal comment. Returning a comment on a thread you started is not the same as replying to someone elses original comment. Notice "if you don't like it, don't REPLY" notice the difference now?

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